Jordan Maron, better known as his YouTube username and online name, CaptainSparklez, is an American YouTube personality. Maron is best known for his song parodies made using Minecraft textures. He also regularly posts gameplay commentary videos that mainly focus on Minecraft.^[1] However, other games are also played during the video such as Team Fortress 2, and Call of Duty, among others. In November 2012, Maron's YouTube channel surpassed 2 million subscribers, after which he received the YouTube 1 million subscriber Golden Play Button.^[2] Maron collaborated with Andrea Rene of Machinima in a video published by What's Trending.^[3] In December 2012, Maron appeared in the inaugural episode of The Fine Brothers' YouTubers React.^[4]

History[link]

Maron's original channel was Prosdonttalkshit. Maron uploaded mostly Call of Duty videos and worked for Machinima.com.

On July 20, 2010, he created his new channel CaptainSparklez due to the explicit language on his other YouTube channel, and kept posting Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 gameplay. As Minecraft got mildly popular, Jordan posted a few Minecraft videos and soon he completely switched his channel from Call of Duty to Minecraft. His popular Minecraft videos include his parodies and his Minecraft "Lets Play" which is now in it's second season, which is called "Minecraft: Modded Survival."

The nickname came from his friend SeaNanners who jokingly said Captain Sparklez when Jordan was looking for a name.^[5]

Song parodies[link]

Jordan has (as of December 2012) parodied four popular songs. In music videos Jordan is always accompanied by fellow YouTuber, "TryHardNinja", who provides the lead vocals in all of the parody videos. All of the parodies published by Maron have gone viral to different degrees. As of January 20, 2013,TNT has earned 55 million views, Revenge has earned 85 million views, Fallen Kingdom has earned 47 million views, and Minecraft Style has earned 43 million views (but has since been taken down). Minecraft Style particularly also achieved media coverage by NBC,^[6] MSN,^[7] and The Daily Telegraph,^[8] among several other online news publications.^[9][10] Prior to its removal, Minecraft Style was the most viewed Gangnam Style parody.^[11]

Accomplishments[link]

• Holds the top 4 most viewed Minecraft videos ever, with the top one Revenge at 87 million views
• Minecraft Style featured in Google's year in review
• Fallen Kingdom featured in Google's Rewind YouTube Style 2012^{[citation needed]}
• More than half a billion total video views^{[citation needed]}
• Exclusive panel at Minecon 2012^[12]
• Appearing on national TV at the Spike Video Game Awards
• A "King of the Web" award

References[link]

External links[link]

• Video on YouTube

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